Lightning strikes twice the man wearing that umbrella hat
Really. If you have to go through life wearing that hat don’t you deserve to be smited? Besides the hat not matching his outfit (partial good news), the hat does not provide for a pleasing silohette.
Hat lovers, can I have a shout out!
A student who survived being struck by lightning TWICE has put his good fortune down to the £3 umbrella hat he was wearing at the time.
He’s pretty clearly not a science student if he thinks the hat saved him. Unless he was, like, dragging a copper ground wire from his hat. If anything, the hat is what caused him to be hit.
And now HuffPo readers are going to think that wearing/carrying umbrellas is a good idea in a lightning storm? Jeebus H. Crikey … proof that science idiocy is non-partisan. 
Now you’re just toying with us. Everyone knows that real Washingtonians don’t wear no steenkin rain hats or umbrellas or nuthin. Ye just walk around soaking wet all the time, or else yer some kinda furriner. Even the state motto “Alki” means “I am drenched” in Chinook.
furriner… although Oregon Research does call it a Seattle Sombrero
I didn’t leave Ohio until I was 18 & spent much of the next 4 years in the San Juaquin valley…
I broke down last year and got it…
The wife made fun of it for a year, until she borrowed it once 
I am a hat-fancier and I have one of those umbrella-hats. My family have sworn to disown me if I wear it around them. I can’t remember the last time I wore it, but it’s nice to have, just to freak people out.
Despite the fact the the entire region of England is a Drought-area, it is pouring with rain today, and I am wearing a waxed fedora much like Denny’s. Two solid months of similar rain might refresh the reservoirs.
Just in time for the Olympics too. Heh heh heh… 
Carrying an umbrella or other similar sized metal object is not more likely to get someone hit than just being out in the middle of a thunderstorm in the first place. If you happen to be “lucky” enough to be close to where the lightning is going to strike in the first place a metal object like an umbrella may slightly increase your odds of getting hit if the strike occurs within a few feet(2-3ft) of the carrier.
I wore a hat, look over to yer left, mates
Speaking of science… I got side-tracked from whistle-practicing to browse thru here (look for da sombrero)
http://htwins.net/scale2/scale2.swf?bordercolor=white
I too spent (hot) times in the San Joaquin Valley mid '70s (the salad bowl of America), so I don’t mind da rain at all
it was okay for the first 20 years or so…
and why?
just did da short hitch '73-'93
and why? chasing Lisa http://lisa-stansfield.com/
and why? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9DQnT1Awig
“Now it’s time to say goodbye/ To all our company/ M-I-C, (See you real soon) K-E-Y, (Why? Because we like you!) M-O-U-S-E”, done in a very slow manner. Thank you, and ChaCha again soon!
and why? sailors have, 'er, lots 'n lots mo phun http://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonliebigstuff/385946463/
and why? da ADVERTISING!
and why? I keep asking dat one
p.s. maybe not in dat order
see…20 years
'lived in Stratford, above Mr. Keith’s car storage
da universe just keeps gettin’ shrtr 'n shrtr
or isdat bigr ‘n bigr… or isdat both simultaneously… eternal explodin’ & collapsin’
That’s not what it means in Minnesotan, unless “am drenched” is a poetic device for “drink my lunch out of a paper bag”.
yes, odd thing, innit 
Stratford Theater (next town over) been dark fer 20… they just can’t turn the light$$$ on
good birdin’ there tho
okay folks!
back on topic
whip poor Will…
Too bad about that. That was a favorite yearly field trip when I was in High School over in Westchester County NY and gave me a love of Shakespeare. One detail I remember was a huge wall mounted sundial above the entrance…donated by Timex! 
me too, and I especially liked the “dampness” every time to give it that creepy real feeling.
theater has deteriorated to “beyond repairs” without a complete rebuild. sad part is… it just sits, empty, dark.
Fashion disasters are always worth it depending
if your on the receiving end i.e. the beatles, the sex pistols etc.